GridComp (EC-STREP, 6th FP): the main goal is the design and implementation of a component based framework suitable to support the development of efficient grid applications. The framework will implement a kind of “invisible grid” concept as it will properly abstract all those specific grid related implementation details that usually require high programming efforts to be dealt with (2006, 30 months).

BEinGRID (EC-IP, 6th FP): “The Grid infrastructure for the Retail Management Experiment”. BEinGRID exploits European Grid middleware by creating a toolset repository of Grid services from across the Grid research domain and to use these services to deliver a set of successful business experiments that stimulate the early adoption of Grid technologies across the European Union. Partnes: Atos Origin, TXT e-solutions S.p.A., Università di Pisa (2006, 18 months).